United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England , where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and...

Her godmother Aunt Bertha lent her the funds to attend Oxford. She was greatly influenced by the lectures of Gilbert Murray , Regius Professor of Greek, who lectured on Greek drama and had also founded...

As an undergraduate she participated in clubs for debating, drama, the Classics, the Arts, the British Universities League of Nations Society (a branch of the League of Nations Union ), and the Labour Club ...

KR 's father, George Raine (the son of a coal-miner in County Durham, and a graduate of Durham University), was an English master and housemaster at the County High School in Ilford, a lover of...

Through correspondence RM became a life-long friend of Gilbert Murray , Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford , and Chairman of the Executive of the League of Nations Union . He was fifteen years her...

After her husband recovered from his head injury and went back to the war, NM (pregnant with her first child) became a convert to the League of Nations Society . She set out to further...

In June 1921, they moved the Fellowship Services to the Guildhouse, Eccleston Square, where MR continued to preach until she resigned in December 1936. She resigned because, she said, I have to choose; and...

Brought up in a Conservative family, MR began in her late twenties and early thirties to develop the Socialist views she espoused throughout her adulthood. She said, however, I never joined any party ....

WH began lecturing for the League of Nations Union .

WH began a six-month lecture tour in South Africa for the League of Nations Union .

SB and Gladys Forster presented a report on local brothels to the Hong Kong branch of the League of Nations Society .

VB was a lecturer for the League of Nations Union , travelling throughout England.

She later devoted much time and effort to work for the League of Nations Union and then the League of Nations itself.

ER was already alert to the effects of expansionist fascism when she contributed a foreword to The Tragedy of Abyssinia. What Britain Feels and Thinks and Wants, published by the League of Nations Union .

VB 's political commitments involved a great deal of travel, beginning with journeys all around England as a League of Nations Union lecturer. She was in Cologne in October 1924 observing the hungry, hopeless Germans...